CommentSold Launches White-Label Live Selling Platform Videeo
CommentSold, a live selling platform, launched Videeo this morning, a white-label live video commerce technology for enterprises. Videeo will help retailers create native-looking live shopping experiences at scale by easily integrating CommentSold’s technology into their existing ecommerce stack.
Vibrant Media Launches Contextual Advertising Solution to Increase Targeting Granularity
Advertisers are clamoring for more contextual targeting solutions. Publishers are, too. With demand continuing to accelerate — and as data privacy regulations grow stricter throughout many parts of the U.S. — Vibrant Media is launching a new sell-side contextual solution that allows publishers to automate the process of adding and maintaining relevant key-values in the programmatic framework.
Retailers Look to Scale Prime Day Results Across External Channels
The question retail executives should be asking themselves now is how they can scale Prime Day results across other channels where they can maintain control of brand and margin. Prime Day delivers a desirable consumer experience at scale, and Ramos says other retailers should try to scale this methodology across their external performance channels if they see value.
Location-Based Marketing Association: McDonald’s Gets Personal at the Drive Thru
In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Verve Group partnering with Getty Images, Snapchat adding Ghost Trails for your friends’ location history, McDonald’s getting more personalized at the drive thru by recognizing car license plates, and SafeGraph partnering with PredictHQ for location intelligence.
Marketers Turn to Creative to Fill Advertising Gap Left by Personal Data
The data privacy movement has triggered a massive shift in digital advertising away from the use of personally identifiable information to serve consumers targeted ads. But if advertisers are not depending on customer information to drive effective campaigns, what will fill the gap? One X factor could be the strength of creative.
Is Data the Key to Surviving the Great Resignation?
To navigate these challenging times, businesses need to create more efficient hiring processes and outline ways to effectively retain the talent they have already hired. Accomplishing both goals will require the use of quality data sources. Here are some ways that data can help companies survive The Great Resignation.
Retailers Prepare for Increased Cyber Attacks During Prime Day
Cyber security experts are warning of increased phishing, ransomware, and social engineering attacks during Amazon’s Prime Day event this week, as more hackers take advantage of the event’s popularity to send credential harvesting emails to unsuspecting consumers. With the frequency of these attacks on the rise, multi-location retailers are beefing up their own digital security protocols and using external marketing channels to distribute warnings to their customers.
How Brands Can Prepare for a Federal Privacy Law
The American Data Privacy and Protection Act inched its way closer to reality earlier this month, advancing in the House and moving to the full Energy and Commerce Committee for approval. With support from both House and Senate committee leaders, it’s beginning to look like advertisers and marketers might finally be getting uniformity in privacy and data regulations across all 50 states.
Designing a Data Collection Strategy That Improves Brand Safety
As the consumer landscape shifts, it’s critical to dig deeper and get to know your customers and understand their changing preferences—not based on guesses or assumptions, but on clean, accurate first-party data that you collect and own. That work begins with creating a solid, privacy-centric data collection strategy.
Using Local Search to Fight Inflation
Just as the pandemic increased our reliance on digital information and services, so too is inflation reflected in the volume of activities on digital platforms, such as searches for certain types of local business. The searches we conduct online are a barometer of our larger concerns, and these days, belt tightening is clearly on the minds of many consumers.
Location-Based Marketing Association: Simon Property Group Launches Search Platform
In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Readyland’s Alexa-enabled books letting kids talk to characters, Peru’s Oechsle dressing mannequins in theaters with their clothes, Simon Property Group launching a search platform for shoppers, Geobroadcast responding to broadcast association complaints, and updated stats on the performance of the SocialShelf platform.